What I learned this week

Software

Git clone off a custom port:

  • git clone ssh://git@mydomain.example:[port]/home/whatever

git branch -a for remote branches

Git tagging

$0 is a way to invoke bash

FFUF fast web fuzzer

HTTP referer was misspelled in the original RFC and then kept hahaha

WAT types

Business/Finance

Who’s on the other side of your NVDA trade?

This google x gentle monster collab is hilarious Why do large companies continue to try and do this shit?

538 and Disney racket

Not.. surprised… “our results suggest that winning traders are sophisticated liquidity providers, while losing traders are liquidity takers who repeatedly overpay for low-probability outcomes."

  • The top 0.1% of users with positive PnL alone captured 51.2% of all gains, while the top 1% captured 76.5%, the top 5% captured 91.4%, and the top 25% accounted for 99.2.

LOL VC MONEY

3826km in 7 days

Chekhov’s gun: every element in a story should be necessary

Please use AI

Shipping a laptop Uganda… what governments/local authorities will do to screw their people over at every turn

Math/Stat

Travel

Other

Longest gliding commercial flight at ~75 miles